Theological Theses · §2583 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

The Lutherans reject the division of grace into sufficient and efficacious

Thesis I. The theologians of the Augsburg Confession known as Lutherans reject the familiar division of grace into sufficient and efficacious. Their reason is that the grace of God at work in believers is one and the same as the grace that unbelievers drive away.

On their view, therefore, the very grace that the unbelieving and impenitent scorn and tread underfoot is efficacious of itself and in itself. It should not be called merely sufficient, as if set against some other grace that is efficacious.

Latin

THESIS I. ILLI Confessionis Augustanae Theologi qui Lutherani appellantur, non admittunt vulgatam gratiae divisionem in sufficientem atque efficacem. Idque quoniam una eademque Dei gratia est quae in credentibus operatur, & ab incredulis repellitur. Adeoque, juxta ipsos, illa ipsa gratia quam aspernantur & conculcant increduli & impoenitentes, ex se & in se efficax est, nec debet tantum sufficiens dici opposite ad quandam gratiam efficacem.

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